Financial Systems Analyst I
American Express · Posted Oct 7
Banking, credit card, payment network, and travel services
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About the role
The Credit and Fraud Risk Controllership (C&FRC) organization manages end-to-end credit and fraud processes, from reserve adequacy assessment through external and regulatory reporting, including the IFRS9 and CECL implementations. This role sits in the Product Owner (PO) Group within C&FRC and supports the technology development of features for credit reserving, disclosures, and management reporting. The incumbent works with Controllership, Risk Decision Science, Risk Finance, and Technologies on enterprise finance platform modernization initiatives such as Oculus, LUMI (Google Cloud Platform), ODS hollow-out, and Fusion credit reserving infrastructure.
What you will do
- Communicate with multiple stakeholders across the organization to create and communicate the vision, value and priorities of the product and collaborate closely and constantly with the development team and broader product owner team on the delivery of product features.
- Understand the needs of the business / users with respect to the product/features and decide, in consultation with, leadership on feature and functionalities critical to the business.
- Participate in leadership meetings and clearly articulate the strategic vision for addressing the business requirements.
- Ensure actionable user stories are created including clear acceptance criteria.
- Ensure prioritization of user stories for sprint planning and backlog refinement meetings.
- Actively participate in the sprint planning, backlog refinement and sprint review meetings
- Attend daily stand-ups and answer questions and remove impediments.
- Support user acceptance testing, parallel run testing, and any other testing required to ensure the build meets the requirements authored including development and execution of test cases, and documentation of results.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in areas like project management, process governance, control & compliance or accounting and reporting is required.
- Testing management and execution experience is a plus.
- Agile trained is a plus.
- In addition to above, experience with credit reserves and portfolio analysis, financial modeling and accounting is desired
- Experience with financial reporting requirements and processes.
- Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
- A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers' expectations.
- Excellent Communication Skills; Verbal, Written
- Engineer in the field of software development or computer science
- 3-5 years of project work experience or accounting and reporting experience
- Experience with implementing / supporting large-scale changes
- Strong process orientation and analytical problem-solving skills demonstrated process improvement.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, strong collaboration, and relationship skills.
- Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of financial systems
- A good understanding of the banking products is a plus
- Python, SQL, HIVE, Java, Tableau and data analysis
- Awareness of relevant US GAAP/Local GAAP/IFRS
- Results driven, self-starter, able to lead and influence without direct authority.
- Ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple demands, and effectively manage in a matrix organization.
- Strong leadership skills
Benefits and support
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financial-well-being and retirement
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
About American Express
American Express Company is a globally recognized multinational financial services corporation specializing in payment cards, travel-related services, and network banking. Founded in 1850, the company provides charge and credit cards, expense management products, and merchant services to consumers, small businesses, and large corporations worldwide. It operates a proprietary payments network known for its premium customer engagement and lifestyle rewards programs.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 76800 employees
- Founded
- 1850-03-18
- Location
- New York City, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
Chief Colleague Experience Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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